World War II » Internment

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  • Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

    Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

    • Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II

      Original source: Japanese-American Internee Data File, 1942-1946 [Archival Database]; Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1988-1989; Records of the War Relocation Authority, Record Group 210; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

  • Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

    Organization which maintains digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II. Includes over 500 hours of interviews.

    • Densho Encyclopedia

      The Encyclopedia covers key concepts, people, events, and organizations that played a role in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The reviewed articles are written by a wide range of contributors, and are enhanced with photos, documents and video drawn from Densho's digital archives and other sources.

  • German American Internee Coalition

    Focused on the history of internment of German Americans and Latin Americans during World War II, this site has name lists of over 7,000 civilians forcibly removed from Latin America by the US, interned in the U.S., and/or sent to Germany. Manifests of some of the ships used to transport these prisoners to the U.S. or Germany are included.

  • Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

    From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

  • World War II Internment Camps

    From the Handbook of Texas Online.

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